Privacy notice

Google sign-in

When you choose Google sign-in, Tele receives your Google account identifier, verified email address, name, and profile photo. We use these details to authenticate you and show your account in your workspace. Tele does not receive your Google password and does not access Gmail, Drive, or contacts. Sign-in alone does not give Tele access to your calendar or store any Google token.

Google Calendar

Connecting Google Calendar is optional. If you connect it, Tele uses access to your calendar's events only to add, update, and cancel events for calls you schedule in Tele, with the people you invite as guests, so that your calendar sends them the invitation and the meeting link. Tele does not read your other events. We store a refresh token, encrypted, so invitations stay in step when you change or cancel a call, and short-lived access tokens only until they expire. You can disconnect in Tele's calendar settings, which deletes the stored token and revokes it at Google, or remove Tele's access from your Google Account at any time.

Tele's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Calendar data is not used for advertising, not sold, and not used to train AI models.

Workspace and call information

Tele stores organization names, membership and role information, invitation records, and call details such as titles, schedules, guest lists, agendas, and the email addresses of people invited to a call. If call features are used, Tele may also process chat messages, recordings, participant identifiers, connection events, IP addresses, browser details, and client-reported media diagnostics. Workspace members with access to a call can see information provided by that call.

Direct messages

People in the same organization can send each other one-to-one messages. Tele stores the text, who sent it, who received it, and when, so a conversation is still there when you return. Only the two people in a conversation can read it. A call started from a conversation is added to it as a message with a link to join. A platform operator can permanently delete a person's direct message history, for example after a data request. Each deletion is recorded with who did it, whose history, how many messages, and the reason, and never keeps the messages.

Notifications and mobile apps

If you turn on notifications, Tele stores a delivery address for your browser or phone so it can tell you about call invitations, scheduled calls, calls starting, chat, and direct messages. A notification names the person and the call, and never includes the text of a message. Browser notifications are delivered through your browser's own push service. Notifications for the Android app are delivered through Google Firebase Cloud Messaging, which receives the delivery address and the notification content. The delivery address is removed when you turn notifications off or sign out of the app, and when the push service reports that it no longer works. The Android and iPhone apps sign in only to accounts that already exist and do not create new ones.

Cookies and security

Tele uses a first-party HTTP-only session cookie to keep you signed in. OAuth state and temporary invitation links are used to protect sign-in and joining flows. Invitation links expire after seven days and can be revoked by an organization owner or admin. The stored invitation token is a hash.

Retention and service providers

IP addresses and browser user-agent details are removed after 30 days by default. Call, session, and billing records may remain for service operation. Tele processes call media through its own real-time media infrastructure and uses service providers needed to host and secure the application. Approximate IP location, down to city, is derived locally from the IP address and is not a GPS location. It uses the DB-IP City Lite database; no IP address is sent to a third party for this.

IP Geolocation by DB-IP

Your choices

You can stop using Tele and revoke its account access from your Google Account settings. Organization owners manage membership and invitations. For questions about this notice or your account data, contact the Tele service operator through the support channel provided with your account.